Cindy Milstein (they) on Nostr: Short(ish) post to send abundant love and big bear hugs to everyone who feels broken ...
Short(ish) post to send abundant love and big bear hugs to everyone who feels broken by the past week and past year(s).
Please don’t break yourself to the point of giving up. ❤️🩹
It’s the social system that’s broken. It’s structured to fucking break our hearts, minds, and bodies, our soul and spirit. And while, as a wise rabbi said hundreds of years ago, “there is nothing so whole as a broken heart,” our aspiration should be “wholeness,” not “brokenness.”
We fight as healers—not hiding our battle scars, yet not letting them stop us from self-organizing together toward days when our rebel hearts can tend to the necessary aches that come with life and love, not the seemingly constant onslaught of unnecessary brutality and violence foisted on us by the fascist social order.
Still, I know many of us—many of you—are struggling. And I know for many of us, this plane of “existence” feels keenly unbearable at the moment.
Perhaps the most crucial direct action we can do right now, at this dire juncture, is to be each other’s balm. To not let the fear and trauma and grief—and so many other feelings—do the christofascists’ work for them and take us away from each other.
We can bear almost anything when we do so together.
See each other. Listen to each other. Share with and believe each other. Be vulnerable with each other. Laugh and cry with each other. Walk with each other. Hold each other. Love like you’ve never loved before, so we can all hear each other’s broken-whole hearts beating strong with the sounds of otherworldly life and liberation.
#MendingTheWorld
(photo: “you are not broken” sticker seen on the stolen lands of Montreal/Tiohtià:ke in late summer 2024)
Please don’t break yourself to the point of giving up. ❤️🩹
It’s the social system that’s broken. It’s structured to fucking break our hearts, minds, and bodies, our soul and spirit. And while, as a wise rabbi said hundreds of years ago, “there is nothing so whole as a broken heart,” our aspiration should be “wholeness,” not “brokenness.”
We fight as healers—not hiding our battle scars, yet not letting them stop us from self-organizing together toward days when our rebel hearts can tend to the necessary aches that come with life and love, not the seemingly constant onslaught of unnecessary brutality and violence foisted on us by the fascist social order.
Still, I know many of us—many of you—are struggling. And I know for many of us, this plane of “existence” feels keenly unbearable at the moment.
Perhaps the most crucial direct action we can do right now, at this dire juncture, is to be each other’s balm. To not let the fear and trauma and grief—and so many other feelings—do the christofascists’ work for them and take us away from each other.
We can bear almost anything when we do so together.
See each other. Listen to each other. Share with and believe each other. Be vulnerable with each other. Laugh and cry with each other. Walk with each other. Hold each other. Love like you’ve never loved before, so we can all hear each other’s broken-whole hearts beating strong with the sounds of otherworldly life and liberation.
#MendingTheWorld
(photo: “you are not broken” sticker seen on the stolen lands of Montreal/Tiohtià:ke in late summer 2024)